If you understood him, it would not be God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEHeaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
-
-
To sing is to pray twice.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE






